The ebuilds for howto-html, howto-html-single, howto-pdf, howto-ps, and howto-text are fairly out-of-date, so it would probably be a good idea use a more recent tarball of the linux docs. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 2 2005, 03:51:52)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/redhat-tools /usr/local/portage /usr/local/bmg-main" SYNC="rsync://acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac alsa apache2 apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cairo cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux dvd dvdr eds emboss encode ethereal faad fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint glitz gmail gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal howl imagemagick imlib ipv6 ithreads java javamail jpeg junit ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mono mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pdflib perl pic png ppds python quicktime readline real samba sdl slang sox spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl subversion tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis win32codecs xine xml xml2 xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux libc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
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